§ MR. KIMBER (Wandsworth)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether the Treasury has received from the Education Department any recommendations for the exceptional promotion of specially meritorious clerks of the Second Division to the higher grade of their Division; and, if so, how many such recommendations have been received, at what dates, and with what result?
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Sir J. T. HIBBERT,) OldhamA recommendation was made by the Education Office on 24th December, 1891, for the special promotion of 2 Second Division clerks to the higher grade of the Division, and the Treasury on the 14th of the following month replied that, they did not consider that the circumstances constituted "a very exceptional case," within the meaning of Clause 6 of the Order in Council. This application was renewed in December last, and has been considered together with those from other Departments, but, as at present advised, the Treasury does not consider that a case has been made out for the exercise of the powers specially reserved to the Treasury by the clause in question.